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Originally posted on LANCASTER BLACK HISTORY GROUP: Harry Yearnshire (Head of History, Lancaster Girls Grammar School) Alongside four students from Lancaster Girls Grammar School (LGGS) students – Jasmine Patel, Emma Chandler, Emily Yates and Bella Tyler – that have been involved with the Lancaster Black History Group (LBHG) Slavery ‘Family Trees’ research project have benefited…

Originally posted on LANCASTER BLACK HISTORY GROUP: This exhibition was first displayed at Lancaster City Museum in the summer and autumn of 2023, and we are pleased that it has now travelled to the University Library. It is one of the outcomes of the first phase of the Slavery Family Trees project, funded by a…

Originally posted on LANCASTER BLACK HISTORY GROUP: An LBH Podcast How are racism and stigma power linked? How can education empower us to face the past and tell new stories? And why must we break historical silences? Sociologist Imogen Tyler talks to fellow activists from Lancaster Black History Group, formed after a Black Lives Matter…

Imogen Tyler, Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University who talks about how the changes to nationality legislation through BNA 1981 set the stage for people to be born stateless within the UK’s borders and explores how nationality legislation is designed to

I have been asked a few times recently to reflect on the concept of stigma machines which is central to my new book, this extract from the concluding chapter (‘Rage against the Stigma Machines”) of Stigma: the Machinery of Inequality offers a little context about the genealogy of this concept in my work. ‘Rage against…

Review by Dr Devyani Prabhat, 26th November 2020 – reblogged from Sociological Review. Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality is a book that connects a variety of contexts, including penal power, black power, borders, and austerity, through the use of stigma power. It is a demonstration of what C Wright Mills calls the ‘sociological imagination’, the ability…

Tracing Threads of Connection This is a photograph of Malena and Temi, both pupils at a local school, participating in a Black Lives Matter Protest on the steps of the Town Hall in Dalton Square, Lancaster, in June 2020. The photograph was taken by their friend, my 17-year old daughter, Bella, and is published here…

A short slightly adapted extract from chapter 5 of Stigma  Sociological Imagination In The Sociological Imagination (1959), the American sociologist Charles Wright Mills famously stated that ‘no social study that does not come back to the problem of biography, of history and their intersections within a society has completed its intellectual journey’.[i]  Indeed, the promise…